National Day of Prayer

The National Day of Prayer (36 USC § 119) is an annual day of observance held on the first Thursday in May is designated by the Congress of the United States, when people are asked "to turn to God in prayer and meditation. " Each year the President signs a proclamation encouraging all Americans to pray on this day. Modern law to formalize its annual observance was adopted in 1952, although it has historical roots for a term of George Washington, first president of the United States.

Its constitutionality is challenged in court by the Freedom From Religion Foundation after his first challenge was rejected unanimously by a federal appeals court in April 2011.

Arbor Day

Arbor Day (from the Latin arbor, meaning tree) is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and maintain trees. She was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton. The first Arbor Day was held April 10, 1872, and about one million trees were planted the day.

Many countries celebrate the same holidays. Although generally observed in spring, the date varies depending on climate and the appropriate planting season.

Birdseye Northrop, Connecticut, said in a globalization that when he visited Japan in 1883 and gave his Arbor Day, and the message Village improvement. In the same year, the American Forestry Association Northrup made chairman of the Campaign for Arbor Day, a national level. He also brought his enthusiasm for Arbor Day, Australia, Canada and Europe.

Arbor Day has reached its peak of popularity in its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright noted that the Nebraska non-profit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the party, and commercialized for their own use as a mark for publication "Arbor Day", then s' is opposed to their action, has launched a website, and it's a trademark for "public use, Celebrations," and defended the case in a federal district court of the United States to ensure that was classified as belonging in the case of public space has been decided in October 1999. Today anyone can use the term "Arbor Day" and keep their own Arbor Day celebration.

Earth Day

Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation of Earth's natural environment. The name and the concept of Earth Day was started by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. The first proclamation of Earth Day was not San Francisco, San Francisco, the patron saint of ecology. Earth Day was first observed in San Francisco and other cities March 21, 1970, the first day of spring. Today, the balance of nature was later endorsed a proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations where it is celebrated every year. About the same time an Earth Day was established separately by the U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in April 22, 1970. Although the April 22 Earth Day focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the national coordinator of origin in 1970, led the International in 1990 and hosted 141 events at the United Nations.

Earth Day Network is coordinated by the global Earth Day and is celebrated in over 175 countries in all communities year.Numerous celebrate Earth Week, a week of activities focusing on environmental issues. In 2009, the United Nations has designated April 22 International Day of Mother Earth.

Easter Monday

Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some cultures, mostly Christians, mostly Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox cultures. Easter Monday on the Catholic liturgical calendar the second day of the octave of Easter.

Previously, the post-Easter festivities involved a week, a secular party, but this was reduced to one day of 19 th century. The events are the egg-rolling contests, and predominantly Roman Catholic countries, dousing other people with water, which traditionally had been holy water blessed the day before at Easter Sunday Mass and carried home to bless the house and food.

In the Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite, Easter Monday is called Bright Monday or Monday and renovation is the second day of the week brilliant. Services are exactly the same as at Easter (Semana Santa), except that the hymns of the Octoechos in two tones. It is usual to have a Crucession (procession led by a cross) or after the Easter Matins and Divine Liturgy after Easter. Usually, a day to visit family and friends. Easter Monday is the day we celebrate the feast of St. George in the years in the San Jorge (April 23) falls during Holy Week and Easter Sunday.

Easter

Easter (Old English: Eostre; greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic פֶּסחא Pasha, Hebrew: Pesach פֶּסַח) is central to the Christian liturgical celebration year.According the canonical Gospels, Jesus rose from the dead the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday (the Day of Resurrection, or Resurrection Sunday). Chronology of his death and resurrection is variously interpreted as occurred between AD 26 and 36

Easter marks the end of Lent, a period of forty days of fasting, prayer and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week and includes Good Friday recalls the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter is followed by a period of fifty days called Passover or Easter Tide season ends with Pentecost.

Easter is a moveable feast, which means that it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. First Council of Nicaea (325) was established as the date of Easter on the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon), after the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere. Ecclesiastically, the equinox is believed to be 21 March (even if the equinox occurs, astronomically dated 20 March, in most years), and "Full Moon" is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. So the date of Easter varies from 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity calculations are based on the Julian calendar, which corresponds to March 21 during the 21 Century, April 3 Gregorian calendar, where they spent the timing of Easter, therefore, varies between 4 April and 8 May.

Associated with the Passover, Easter is much of its symbolism, as well as its position in the calendar. In many European languages, the words "Easter" and "Easter" are etymologically related, or with the same name.

The Easter customs vary throughout the Christian world, but the decoration of Easter eggs is a common motif. In the Western world, customs such as hunting and the Easter Egg extend the domain of the church, and often have a secular character.

Good Friday

Friday (ie, the saints devoted to the word "good") is primarily a religious holiday observed by Christians to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and His death on Calvary. The festival is observed during Holy Week in the Paschal Triduum, the Friday before Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the celebration of Easter. Also known as Good Friday, Great Friday or Friday of Easter, if usually refers to Friday of Holy Week.

Based on the data of the canonical Gospels, the crucifixion of Jesus was probably a Friday (John 19:42). Annual Good Friday is 33 AD, two different groups, and initially the AD 34 by Isaac Newton, through the differences between the Bible and Julian calendars and the crescent moon. The third method, using a completely different approach based on the astronomical moon and the darkness of the crucifixion of the Eclipse model (in line with reference to the apostle Peter, "moon blood" in Acts 2:20), Friday, April 3 performances of ' 33 years.

April Fools' Day

April Fool's Day is celebrated in several countries around the world on April 1 of each year. Sometimes known as All Fools Day 'on 1 April is not a national holiday, but it is widely recognized and celebrated the day in which many people do all sorts of jokes and stupidity. The day is marked, that the Commission is a joke in good humor, or at least fun, jokes and other various scams sophistication of friends, family, teachers, neighbors, coworkers, etc.

Traditionally, in some countries, like New Zealand, United Kingdom, Cyprus and South Africa, the jokes only last until noon, and someone who plays a trick after noon is called "April Fool" and derided the "first past the April and gone, you're crazy to make a. 'Elsewhere, such as France, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Holland, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Australia and the United States, the jokes all day.

The first recorded connection between April 1 and stupidity can be found in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392). Many authors suggest that the restoration of January 1 as New Year in the 16th century, was responsible for creating the festival, but this theory does not explain the earlier references.